A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

skilful Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 0 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences42 0 1 0 0 1
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of skilful in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
wird "knacketie" here means "skilful" - awthin wirked on page 121

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
orner ae his eye. This is his skilful wey ae tellin me tae turn the
1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I did a skilful pas-de-bas and pasted on a sm on page 3

1 matches

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
The lint wi' skilful han's. on page 9

1 matches

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